This college is situated in Southern Kolkata, close to the Jatin Das Park Metro Station, gate No.

[3] In 2014, University Grants Commission-approved free add-on courses on Tourism, Industrial Chemistry, and Hospital Waste Disposal Management were introduced by the college.

The Department of Higher Education wanted institutions like Asutosh College with a proven academic track record of renewing their NAAC grade.

But many colleges, including Asutosh, was reluctant to get involved in the process which the Principal at the time called "long drawn and fund consuming, without having any real benefit".

In 1996, then Principal Subhankar Chakraborty was accused of moral policing after he asked female students to dress modestly.

They also said the after sales service of the company roped in by the state government to install and operate the machines, were unpredictable and bad.